Originally Posted by
Doc Safari
All right, then. Whatever terminology you wish to use, I see the US collapsing like Yugoslavia. First the government will find it impossible to hold onto control just like the Soviet Union, then the various factions will cause a breakup of the US into a loosely-connected units that may still call itself the United States of America, but it will be more like the loose confederation that the original thirteen colonies were. There will be strife and multiple conflicts as the country goes so completely broke that basic infrastructure and semblance of a federal system break down.
What happens after that, I don't know. Maybe Russia and China nuke a weakened America?